Thirty days ago, when I scheduled this interview with Alan Monroe, the Interim Executive Director of ShelterBox USA, this was intended to be a standard profile of a social entrepreneur making a difference in the world. Then an earthquake hit in Nepal and changed everything.

For investment professionals, one of the most opportune times to gather assets is when money is in motion. There are three pronounced occurrences of this, and there are methodologies that can be deftly used to win in these scenarios.

There have been quite a few articles written recently around open office spaces and why we need to get rid of them, why they’re bad for engagement, why they’re bad for productivity, and why they are killing our companies. There have been just as many articles written about the positive impacts of…

In junior high school in the 1970s, I built a small helium-neon laser. (Yes, I was a science geek.) By built, I mean I ordered a sealed gas tube with mirrors on both ends and built a high-voltage power supply to fire it.

EMC has successfully adjusted itself to keep its products current and attractive even as the market has moved towards hyper-converged architectures in order to support the growing applications in the cloud, powering today’s economy.

If you want to think of yourself as the smartest guy in the room (as I sometimes do) when the subjects of customer service, company culture, and hospitality come up, you’d better be sure the room in question doesn’t include Danny Meyer. Danny Meyer has few equals when it comes to understanding and…

There?s often a huge bias against venture-funded owners versus entrepreneurs who bootstrapped their growth customer by customer. Buyers often think that venture-funded entrepreneurs have been on easy street.

Modern immigrants, like those who came before, are here to work hard and provide for their families. They want economic opportunity. They embody the American dream -- and they happen to be good for state governments' bottom line.

It’s no secret that it has become harder and harder to get a small business loan from a bank. Luckily for small businesses, many other ways of borrowing money are now available. These range from short-term loans for those with bad credit, to loans for online businesses, to peer2peer loans. The…

Just weeks after failing to win regulatory support for a $45 billion takeover of competitor Time Warner Cable, Comcast reported a strong rise in profits and an significant increase in its quarterly dividend and annual share repurchase authorization.

Retail appetite for risk may be drying up, if last week’s unsettling action in the sexy social-media corner of the market is any indication.Plus, the “smart money” is signaling trouble ahead in housing.

You know the great thing about databases? You ask them a question – or, to be more technical, you generate a query – and the answer comes back. That’s highly simplified, of course, because for your query to be successful, it has to at least match the data therein.

Oil, gas and coal helped power the Industrial Revolution, but humans have to tear up the planet to extract these energy sources. Burning them pollutes the environment, but people can use these power sources whenever they like.

The debates around open vs closed office spaces are continuing to heat up and I still think these debates are absolutely pointless. As I've said many times the debate shouldn't be around cubicle or open space it should instead be all about workplace flexibility. That is giving the employees the…

As the May 7th British election approaches, a worrisome scenario about the outcome in the polls emerges: that neither of the two major parties will win enough votes to form a government. This means that the balance of power is tipping to smaller parties with nationalistic and local agendas. That?s…